Venezuelan-born comic, Ivan Aristeguieta has arrived. And not in the “please place all your metal belongings on this tray and walk through the metal detector” way. No, Aristeguieta has hit the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Hit it, and torn it a new one.

As various make-shift stages and venues pop up across Melbourne and the funny people start rolling in for the 3oth Annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival, we look at some of the shows you should check out over the next month.

A few people have asked me for some show recommendations for the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy festival, so I thought this would be the platform to give them. Granted, nobody asked me to write an article about it, and they were probably only asking me to be polite in the first place, but I’m still giving them.